isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"In Mr. Proctor's book, astronomers seem especially doomed by Providence to encounter all kinds of curious "coincidences", for he gives us many cases out of the "multitude", and even of the "thousands of facts [sic]." To this list we may add the army of Egyptologists and archeologists who of late have been the chosen pets [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"The sun in Aries, Jupiter, is shown in astrology as a masculine, diurnal, cardinal, equinoctial, easterly sign, hot and dry, and answers perfectly to the character attributed to the fickle "Father of the gods." When angry Zeus-Akrios snatches from his fiery belt the thunderbolts which he hurls forth from heaven, he rends the clouds and [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"We have but to open the most common book on astrology, and compare the descriptions embraced in the Fable of the Twelve Houses with the most modern discoveries of science as to the nature of the planets and the elements in each star, to see that without any spectroscope the ancients were perfectly well-acquainted with [...]